Tom J. Obonyo MPH BA DipTP MCSP HPC
Painstress Therapy & Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy - Hypnotherapy - Aromatherapy

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• Assessment of movement, strength, endurance, and other physical abilities.
• Assessment of the impact of an injury or disability on your physical functioning.
• Assessment of physical preparation for work and sports.
• Program planning and education to restore movement and reduce pain.
• Individualised treatment of an injury or disability based on scientific knowledge, a thorough assessment of the condition, environmental factors, and lifestyle.

Appointments
We offer appointments from 9.00am to 6.00pm
Mon to Fri. Home visits are available to those whom because of disability are unable to attend the clinics. Initial appointments are 45 minutes but can be 1 hour. Subsequent appointments will vary with the problem and will range from 30-45 minutes.

To book an appointment email or phone:
Dalry: 01294 833303 or Troon: 01292 310506

Before any action is taken, the physiotherapist will assess your condition, diagnose the problem and help you to understand what is wrong. They will work with you to develop an effective treatment plan that takes into account your lifestyle, leisure activities and general health. This will include advice on how you can help yourself, for example, you may be shown exercises that you can do between treatment sessions.

Reg. No PH19435

Pain Treatment

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy helps to relieve pain by employing special stretching and pain-relieving techniques that improve movement and function impaired by an injury or disability.

Movement & Exercise

Although resting for short periods can alleviate pain, too much rest may actually increase pain and put you at greater risk of injury when you again attempt movement. Research has shown that regular exercise can diminish pain in the long term by improving muscle tone, strength, and flexibility. Exercise may also cause a release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers.

Psychological Treatment & Support

When you are in pain, you may have feelings of anger, sadness, hopelessness, and/or despair. Pain can alter your personality, disrupt your sleep, and interfere with your work and relationships. In turn, depression and anxiety, lack of sleep, and feelings of stress can all make pain worse. Psychological treatment provides safe, non-drug methods that can treat your pain directly by reducing high levels of physiological stress that often aggravate pain. Psychological treatment also helps improve the indirect consequences of pain by helping you learn how to cope with the many problems associated with pain.

A large part of psychological treatment for pain is education, helping patients acquire skills to manage a very difficult problem.

Mind-Body Therapies - Hypnotherapy

Mind-body therapies are treatments that are meant to help the mind's ability to affect the functions and symptoms of the body. Mind-body therapies use various approaches including relaxation techniques, meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, and hypnosis. Relaxation techniques can help alleviate discomfort related to chronic pain.

Hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis may help you block or transform pain through refocusing techniques.

Therapeutic Massage

Therapeutic treatment is the most common non-surgical treatment for back pain. Improvements of people undergoing therapeutic manipulations have been noted in many trials.

Clinical Massage is being increasingly used by people suffering from pain, mostly to manage chronic back and neck problems. Massage can reduce stress and relieve tension by enhancing blood flow. This treatment also can reduce the presence of substances that may generate and sustain pain.

Other Options: Pain Clinics

Pain clinics generally employ a multidisciplinary approach, involving physicians, psychologists, and physical therapists. The patient as well should take an active role in his or her own treatment. The aim in many cases is not only to alleviate pain but also to teach the chronic sufferer how to come to terms with pain and function in spite of it.

What Causes Chronic Pain?

There are many different factors that cause chronic pain. Often conditions that accompany ageing may affect bones and joints in ways that cause chronic pain. Other common causes are nerve damage and injuries that fail to heal properly.

A single factor, or any combination of these factors, for example, may cause back pain:

• Years of poor posture.
• Improper lifting and carrying of heavy objects.
• Being overweight, which puts excess strain on the back and knees.
• A congenital condition such as curvature of the spine.
• Traumatic injury.
• Wearing high heels.
• Sleeping on a poor mattress.
• No obvious physical cause.

Disease can also be the underlying cause of chronic pain. Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are well-known culprits, but persistent pain may also be due to such ailments as cancer, multiple sclerosis, stomach ulcers, AIDS, and gallbladder disease.

In many cases, however, the source of chronic pain can be a very complex and even mysterious issue to untangle. Although it may begin with an injury or illness, ongoing pain can develop a psychological dimension after the physical problem has healed. This fact alone makes pinning down a single course of treatment tricky, and it is why health care providers often find they have to try a number of different types of curative steps.

Tom J. Obonyo MPH BA DipTP MCSP HPC
Painstress Therapy & Physiotherapy Clinic
Physiotherapy - Hypnotherapy - Aromatherapy

Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Member of the Hypnotherapy Association
Registered with the Health Professions Council

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